The question is not whether what I perceive is real but what kind of thing is being perceived.
I see smoke in the distance. Is it smoke from a fire? Is it a cloud? Dust in my eye? It is something.
But we are not mistaken about what is the concept of smoke, right? Those characteristics are collateral — javi2541997
Some people hallucinating whether it be a sublime experience, a symptom of mental illness, or the result of psychedelics are not able to distinguish between the hallucinations and the real. In which case, these people are said to have "poor insight" particularly common in schizophrenics. — Josh Alfred
I can distinguish between my hallucinations and my actual perceptions. One takes place in the brain without an external stimulus, while the others occur as a result of physical sensation. — Josh Alfred
It's obviously invalid.
And yet, with a few bells and whistles, that is what Fumerton espouses. — Banno
gaslighting — Agent Smith
To be honest with you my dear friend, it is the first I ever read this word so I would check it out in my English-Spanish dictionary :sweat: — javi2541997
- in which the rapscallion husband makes his wife think she's insane for his own personal gain! — Agent Smith
Realness is the sensation of some physical object(s). Those sensations are of a correlative. We understand this in neuroscience as neuro-correlates and in philosophy as correspondence. — Josh Alfred
In our experience we are, perhaps, directly acquainted with the facts concerning our mental states, but the possibility that experiences are hallucinations proves that we cannot be directly acquainted with the facts concerning physical objects that, beyond our reckoning, may or may not be causes of our experiences. — javi2541997
everything might be a hallucination. — Cuthbert
Whoever this Fumerton is they sound rather silly or you are misrepresenting their point … — I like sushi
I imagine a few people here have experienced something quite extraordinary in life that made the whole world around them look/feel somehow ‘different’ and ‘more new — I like sushi
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